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The entire “parents’ rights” hysteria is another sham, a smokescreen for fascists like DeSantis who want to replace fact-based public education with propaganda indoctrination.

How does Sen. Manchin look his grandchildren in the eye?

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center understands that lowering ticket prices is key to getting people into the theater, now more than ever. Last Sunday afternoon I went to Alice Tully Hall to hear the Calidore String Quartet playing … Continue reading →

Usually Sen. Hawley speaks in a nasal, insinuative purr, but today he was slowing down his defamation and leading questioning of law professor Kiara Bridge. The anti-abortion, anti-life, anti-democracy insurrectionist resorted to a slow drawl that made him sound stoned. … Continue reading →

The aroused-by-servility Sen. Graham and other repulsive Trump enablers are defenestrated by Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic. He calls them “the most pathetic men in America.”

about the danger posed by the seditious, authoritarian GOP Supreme Court majority–so says Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman, who castigates the president in Politico for his opposition to court reform. The Biden administration is like a bunch of hamsters on … Continue reading →

That’s the title of a talk I’ll be giving at my local Hudson Park branch of the NYPL in September. Date to be determined.

This is a majority comprised of alcoholics, insurrectionists, cult members, compulsive gamblers, sex offenders, and perjurers, all of them brazenly partisan political activists. It is a court, too that festers in personal grievance and rules according to score settling. Neil … Continue reading →

He wants them as ignorant, as blinkered, as passive, and as brainwashed as possible. The Miami Herald exposes the aspiring-dictator’s teacher training program, which is nothing other than a tutorial in racist Christian nationalism.

because the court has no right to judicial review. That is a prerogative they seized for themselves two hundred years ago, and we, the people, have allowed them that courtesy. Until now. The abuse of that courtesy by the seditious, … Continue reading →